Re
ifferncces east and west God?
I don't want knocks on my door, and an interview asking if I am a loyal citizen or not.
So my statement is tailored to time travel historians only and not for this contemporary forum.
There was a detent in the Arab world, concerning the last of the crusades.
This was a peace that was brought out after, the crusades.This was due to the damage that was caused by the attempted securing of a religious object only and these were the chalice of Christ and the spear that had pierced his side.
Thousands of people lost their lives, over these two items.
Time had passed and we are left with the last meetings between Queen Isabella of Spain and the Moors, which she fought against.
This was a detent.
The Arab world has their erotica, but this taste is based for them to understand only.
They don't like the west and the influences that are brought over to their countries and this shows in some of the comments that they steer our way.
Our own medical industry barrows heavily from past Arab contributions and without the Arab world, maybe our, besides the oil, would be slightly less.
Their fundamentalist clerics, don't want western influence within their society.This influence any more, than Baptist would want, say Jewish intervenes tion into their church, as some of the concepts of how each religion functions, are diametrically opposed.
I don't think that you can lump them all in a basket.
You have to give some of them, some leeway, as when we got involved in the middleast again, we defiantly broke this level of detent.
So the Christian world, is right smack dab in the same conflict that detent had set free of years before.
We can't apply our system of laws to them, as they go by a differing concept of theology and trying to force them to adopt western views, is of course,.... going to cause problems.
This is not my view, by a view held by many.
Maybe the concept of erotica shops in some section of the Arab world, is too much for some of the more fundamentalist in their world, to comprehend?
I'm not doing, saying this to rake muck, or expose a political ideology, but to only sight respectively who is who.
I could not force my idea of building an international shuttle on Rainmantime, even though we would work well together?
His concepts although in many ways the same as mine, are too differing.
Look at the collective works of science fiction author C.J. Cheerygh.
link
http://www.myunicorn.com/bibl1/bibl0134.html
On one of the covers of her book there is painted, a group of Bedouin looking Arab type people and in the distant foreground, a huge spaceship taking off.
This is it seems to say, that the visitors went their way and the Bedouins went theirs.
The cover for this book, is about ten years ago, or more.
I'm only venturing to say, that true understanding of the Arab world; even though like other societies we have barrowed from, is sadly lacking.
I was horrified to both hear and see what had come out of the Abu Zah-grieb Prison, (phonetically spelled) and there is little hope for normalization now.
If you want other cultures to understand and respect you, you certainly don't do things, as was recently done to those prisoners in Iraq.
It will never be safe for westerns to walk the streets in Iraq now.
I'm claiming middle of the road here, but don't lump all Islamics into one basket, as some of them would do to us.
By doing so, you place the entire issue wrong and only stir up more distrust and hostility.
We need those qualities in this society today, of mistrust and hostility.......?!
